"I'm so disappointed with this board that you would ever consider making a 5-year-old walk in unsafe areas," said a concerned parent.

Parent after parent told stories of their kids dodging traffic.

"There's no sidewalk at all. No sidewalk. All the way to school, there's no sidewalk," said one woman.

"We live on a state highway. There is no crosswalk, there is no crossing guard," said another. "If my child gets injured, I can guarantee your budget is a drop in the bucket compared to what I'm coming after."

The Lake County School Board voted in June to cut courtesy busing from the budget in order to save money.

That means some 4,000 kids who live within 2 miles of their school have to find another form of transportation.

Two weeks into the school year, parents said the new plan isn't working.

No decisions were made by the board, but at least one member proposed fee-based busing.

The chairman of the board recommended an emergency meeting on the topic, but the date for that has not been set.

One courtesy busing route has been reinstated after the route for students to Triangle Elementary was deemed hazardous.